iPhone Customized Text Alerts: How to Set Them Up

Now this is useful.

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You know the feeling: You’re waiting for a text from someone specific, and then you hear that ding noise — but it’s just your mom asking what time you’ll be home tonight, because she made linguini and do you want some or should she put it in the fridge?

Thanks to Mic, we can eliminate this first-world issue by creating custom ringtone alerts for text messages from specific people! False hope, be gone. And honestly, it’s SO worth the five seconds it takes.

The process is simple and is as follows:

Go to the Contacts app.

Select the person you’d like to set the custom ringtone for, and click Edit in the upper right-hand corner.

Select Text Tone at the bottom of the screen.

Set your custom ringtone.

Mic also explains how to make it so you can get alerts from this person, even with Do Not Disturb turned on (so be sure to click over to them for those instructions).

If you’re interested in taking it a step further and creating your own custom ringtone, MacWorld's got your back — check out that how-to here. It’s a bit more complicated and requires exporting and syncing files, but hey. That special texter may be worth it.